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MicroStation Connect Edition 15 Been using MicroStation for a few months on and off now and have been printing drawings to PDF's ok. But now I have a couple of drawings that were produced by someone else that I want to print as PDF’s. However, the drawing…

Hi, I am Owais from Sanjay Metal India . I am not able to print multiple pages

If I print one of my drawings out of MicroStation V8i to a pdf with a hatch in the drawing (road hatch) then the pdf size is extremely large. If I turn the hatch layer off and print in the exact same way that I printed before, then the pdf size is normal…

How does you print Openroads Cross sections/profiles? ?I would like to print the cross section graphics in full black on top of grayed out gridlines. Have previously used pen tables to search for logical named references, and Grid Line levels, and used…

Printing paper and PDF takes too much time (30 minutes at a time...) Is there an option to reduce this time?

Hi Dear Folks, When i printout a PDF file I can not understand is the cause of a problem appearing bottom line like this : " [StartDoc] The specified datatype is invalid. How can i fix this?? Warm Regards..

Hi All, I'm having a problem when printing to PDF! Using the pdf.pltcfg, I have turned on "Enable Optional Content" in Driver Properties to get it to create "Layers" in my PDF to match my DGN, no drama there. My question is how do I get it to…

Hi I used to use IPLOT to create pdf's but found that the standard Print Organizer i much faster. But I have a problem when I need to create more than 500 print (plotshapes). I know where to changes this for IPLOT, but can't find the same config…

Hey! I use batch print for V8i for printing to PDF. The .job file can have up to 5-20 drawings in one .job file, all of them have .TIF files as an raster background. So to my questions... 1. It takes really long time to print…

Does the PDF.pltcfg driver have the ability to "Enable Accessibility and Reflow with Tagged Adobe PDF" that is available with Acrobat PDFmaker in Microsoft products? We have a reviewer you does all their mark-ups in Adobe and then wants to export it…

Hello everyone, Has anybody ever noticed missing shared cells (pseudo cells) when printed in large numbers to PDF files? I design conveying systems and I use shared cells (pseudo cells) to display large numbers of reoccurring components to keep…

We are using the default pltcfg file that comes with Microstation Select Series 2 in Windows 7. When we try to plot a file using the PDF.pltcfg, Microstation goes through the steps of choosing a location to save the PDF, but when Printing Status starts…

Hello all. We have begun having issues with newly created user accounts. When we add a new user to to ProjectWise ( SS3 - 09.11.09.109 ) they are unable to print to PDF files within MicroStation V8i ( SS2 - 08.11.07.443 ). The "save as" dialog which…

In our titleblocks we have a TAG set as follows: Tag Set: TBAnnotation Tag Name: TBTitle Tag Type: String Value: G001 (or what ever) We would like to have this information populate the FILENAME for the PDF. For example the above Tag value…

I've been experimenting with V8i recently and have created a 3D model of an electricity Substation. From this I have created the various sections as Saved Views using place fitted section. The Saved Views were then used to create new sheets to further…

We are having an issue with our line weights when we plot to PDF. When we plot to the printer, all of the line weights look exactly the way we want them. The problem occurs when we plot to PDF. Line weights get larger or smaller, but only for certain…

Why is taking 10 to 15 minutes to print a PDF?

HI, sorry if this problem have been already discussed, but can't find it on the forum. if so, could anyone drop a link for me? thanks. If this the first time, hope some can help me. i need quite often to create a multiple pages PDF files from…

Right now, when I save the drawing as a .pdf, it saves it as "drawing number.pdf". However, the drawings I work on have different revisions, and we save our .pdf's with these revisions included. I would like to get it to automatically save with the revision…

Hi! I have the following problem. I have to print PDF in the following standard: PDF/X-1. This standard involves a series of requirements such as 1. Fonts need to be embeded in the PDF file. 2. CMYK colours or SPOT COLOURS have to be included. Is it possible…

Microstation V8 XM edition (Ver. 8.09.04.51) Using "Project Explorer" I have tried to provide a link to an element to open to a pdf file in Microstation which works fine. I came to know when the dgn is exported to pdf, the same link will be maintained…

I created a few new levels on my working file to make it easier to edit...... but when I print to PDF the lines I drew with the new levels are not displayed. Any ideas how to fix this? or do I just have to stick to the existing levels?

Hello, this is my first post in BE. What I am having issues with is printing my documents to A1 greyscale PDF's. I have modified the pdf.plt file to use only two pens pen (1)=(0,2,4,6,7,8-54,56-95,97-151,153-252,255)/RGB=(0,0,0) pen…

Hi I am using the pdf.plt and noticed that I can set the pens to 1 to make only monochrome printing available, my question is, is there a way to have colour and monochrome printing available but set the default to monochrome as I noticed when I have 256…